Summer Surprise!

I planted so many seeds in the garden I have no clue where they are all. That’s how I love to plant. It is so much fun when they start popping up and remember what you planted. It’s like little garden surprises. Sometimes I mix up a few different seeds and through them in corners that are a bit boring. If they come up GREAT! If they don’t, I wont remember I planted them anyway. I did leave one huge pot free for the black (dark dark purple) Angel Trumpet seeds I ordered a few weeks ago. I think that is one I am most excited for. The blooms look like foot long trumpets! How cool is that? Unfortunately it takes six to eight weeks for delivery. Of course!! It will be a Summer surprise then.

From USA Today bestselling author Janel Gradowski, comes a mystery that will leave you hungry for more…

When Amy Ridley decided to compete in the Kellerton Summer Festival Pie Contest, the last thing she expected was to find the reigning pie queen, Mandy Jo, dead — a raspberry pie smashed on her face! Mandy Jo made fantastic pies, but she accumulated more enemies than baking trophies. But when Amy receives a note threatening her own life, she decides to do some investigating herself.

It seems that half the town has a reason to kill the mean pie queen, and Amy finds herself sifting through a list of suspects that’s longer than her list of recipes. Not to mention playing cupid for her love-shy best friend, fending off a baker intent on finding out her prize-winning culinary secrets, and ducking the deadly attentions of Mandy Jo’s killer. If Amy doesn’t find out who wanted the pie queen dead soon, her own goose may be cooked!

On Earth a four year old Kyah was found in an abandoned house with no memory of who she was or how she got there.

But all that changes twenty-one years later when she is shoved through a shimmering door into a realm of fantasy that she thought only existed as stories. Handed a mission by ancient powers, she must figure out how to defeat those intent on bringing the darkness into the light.

In the realm of Avalon, Kyah finds strange and legendary new friends along with new found powers. These powers will help her and her new friends fight the darkness and save a town and its children.

If she survives the encounter with the darkness she will be set on another path to find out who and what she is.

This action-packed fantasy blurs the lines with science fiction twisting legendary heroes and mythical stories into a whole new multiverse.

The Forest of Assassins is a historic thriller set in the earliest days of the American involvement in the Vietnam War. It involved the earliest of Navy SEAL teams. It is set in a time when the NAVY still did not admit these men existed, much less had they determined if those units would survive until the next conflict, or if the experiment would be abandoned.

The Forest of Assassins tells the story of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Hank Dillon, a squad commander, deep in the jungles of South Vietnam when America’s involvement in the war was still in the “advisor” stage. Dillon’s mission is to wreak havoc among the Viet Cong guerillas who are terrorizing the countryside.

Their mission — and even their presence in the region — is top secret. But Hank has a problem even bigger than a deadly and determined enemy; he has a traitor in the ranks.

Meanwhile, a suspicious NCIS cop is nosing around Hank’s mysterious operation, certain that it is a front for drug running and other illegal activities.

Things are tense for the young Lieutenant who just wants to go home to his wife… intact.

Carly Stewart put everything she owns in storage before leaving her live-in boyfriend in New York to pursue happiness.

While staying temporarily at her family’s vacation home on Seashell Island, Carly runs into an old family friend, Beauregard Romano. However, Carly is pleasantly surprised that Beau is no longer the same scrawny boy she remembered. She can’t deny that he’s certainly transformed into a sexy hunk over the years.

She’s successfully self-employed, has an unrefined vocabulary, and is a wine enthusiast in the prime of her life.

He’s a single father of a three-year-old daughter and the preacher of the only church on Seashell Island.

Will sparks fly between the two? Can they make their differences work? Or is it best to ignore the sparks and pretend they don’t exist?

Billi has always been different, and how could he not be? A man with one leg was uncommon enough. Then a three-legged Hound, Rabbit, came from the Forest and sat by his wheelchair, and he had to learn to be a Hunter. Paired for life, Hunters and Hounds are vital to their Village for hunting and protection in the Forest. They share a wordless song which allows them to know each other’s moods and warn of danger. Rules about the Farm and Forest keep the villagers safe – no living tree can be cut, and any man without a Hound is prey once in the Forest.

But an unexpected turn of events leads Billi into new territory. A solitary life evolves as he explores the Forest and finds friends in unlikely places. Now Billi must learn about gifts, chasing, catching and sparkuls as he includes others in his life. Light on magic, but big on heart, Billi’s story rings a chord with anyone who’s ever felt they don’t fit in.

Join Billi on a world-building journey through a land you almost feel you recognize that still has the ability to surprise you.